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ELECTORAL AND GOVERNMENTAL CHANGES
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ment,' and unless there is also a statement at the head of said matter of the amount paid or to be paid therefor, the name and address of the candidate in whose behalf the matter is inserted, and of any other person, if any, authorizing the publication, and the name of the author thereof.

"Persons financially interested in; statement. 2. Every person occupying any office or position under the constitution or laws of this state, or under any ordinance of any town or municipality herein, or under the constitution or laws of the United States, the annual income of which shall exceed three hundred dollars, and every candidate, every member of any personal campaign or party committee, who shall either in his own name, or in the name of any other person, own any financial interest in any newspaper or periodical, circulating in part or in whole in Wisconsin, shall, before such newspaper or periodical] shall print any matter otherwise than as is provided in subsection 1 hereof, which is intended or tends to influence, directly or indirectly, any voting at any election or primary in this state, file in the office of the county clerk of the county in which he resides a verified declaration, stating definitely the newspaper or periodical in which or over which he has such financial interest or control, and the exact nature and extent of such interest or control. The editor, manager, or other person controlling the publication of any such newspaper or article, who shall print or cause to be printed any such matter contrary to the provisions of this act, prior to the filing of such verified declaration from every person required by this subsection to file such declaration, shall be deemed guilty of a violation hereof.

"Newspaper disbursements prohibited. Section 94-15. No owner, publisher, editor, reporter, agent or employee of any newspaper or other periodical, shall, directly or indirectly, solicit, receive or accept any payment, promise or compensation, nor shall